Legal Advantage, LLC Tuesday, July 12, 2011

  Second Quarter 2011 – April 1, 2011 – June 30, 2011

 

Top 20 List – Law Firms

Current Rank

Law Firm

Number of Patents Issued – Q2

 

Current Rank

Law Firm

Number of Patents Issued – Q2

1

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

1285

11

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

453

2

Sughrue Mion, PLLC

867

12

Cantor Colburn LLP

448

3

Oliff & Berridge, PLC

744

13

Foley & Lardner LLP

404

4

Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

743

14

Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

361

5

Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.

651

15

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

355

6

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.

518

16

Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

349

7

Fish & Richardson P.C.

517

17

Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

309

8

Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

508

18

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

289

9

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

477

19

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

289

10

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto

474

20

Staas & Halsey LLP

288

**Source – USPTO July 2011 **Data is subject to change as there may be some lag time in publishing issued patents data by the USPTO. 

Top 20 List – Companies

Current Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued – Q2

 

Current Rank

Company

Number of Patents Issued – Q2

1

International Business Machines Corporation

1523

11

LG Electronics Inc.

386

2

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

1295

12

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

354

3

Hitachi, Ltd.

716

13

General Electric Company

327

4

Panasonic Corporation

694

14

Intel Corporation

307

5

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

689

15

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

309

6

Microsoft Corporation

614

16

Broadcom Corporation

270

7

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

594

17

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

269

8

Sony Corporation

532

18

Cisco Technology, Inc.

262

9

Fujitsu Limited

480

19

Micron Technology, Inc.

260

10

Seiko Epson Corporation

388

20

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

259

**Source – USPTO July 2011 **Data is subject to change as there may be some lag time in publishing issued patents data by the USPTO.  Numbers may be lower or higher due to divestitures, acquisitions, mergers and / or incomplete subsidiary information.  Legal Advantage attempts to capture information from  aforementioned events, however due to timing and availability of information it is not always possible.

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